After the EU Parliament took similar steps last week to probe NGO funding, Slovakia defended its new law requiring NGOs to disclose donors. Critics say it mimics Russia’s “foreign agent” bill and misuses EU actions to justify targeting civil society.
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Slovakia cites European Parliament move in calling Kremlin-style bill ‘legitimate’
“This is not an attack on civil society … but a move to strengthen public trust through greater oversight and accountability,” Slovak official says.Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)
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Iranian Parliament to Pass Bill to Suspend Cooperation with IAEA – Chairperson
The Iranian parliament plans to pass a bill to temporarily suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to its politicized stance. This was announced by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of the Majlis (the...Sputnik International
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The open-source model ecosystem now has image reference generation capabilities comparable to those of GPT-4o and Kontext!
OmniGen2 is a unified multimodal generation model that combines robust visual understanding, text-to-image synthesis, instruction-based image editing, and subject-driven contextual generation within a single framework.🧵1/6
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Most glassmorphic (a portmanteau of ‘glass’ and ‘skeuomorphic’) designs have a more frosted look than what Apple went with in the Liquid Glass design system
That lends itself to better readability, but I think Apple doesn’t want to go that route, a lot of the refraction and chromatic aberration they’ve designed wouldn’t be as prevalent if it were frosted in line with most glassmorphic design systems
Interested to see how the betas play out
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Será o fim do hackintosh? macOS 26 deve acabar com o OpenCore
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Será o fim do hackintosh? macOS 26 deve acabar com o OpenCore • Tecnoblog
Apple encerra a arquitetura x86_64 no macOS Tahoe 26 e impossibilita compatibilidade com processadores Intel, limitando ferramentas de patch.Marina Borges (Mobilon Mídia LTDA)
Here's the Video for Our Sixth FOIA Forum: Massive Blue
Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Fred Smith, FedEx’s billionaire founder and CEO, dies at 80
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Verhaftung von Fatih Altaylı: Weiterer türkischer Journalist festgenommen
Der türkische Präsident Erdoğan lässt erneut einen Kritiker verhaften: Journalist Fatih Altaylı landet nach angeblich regierungskritischen Äußerungen im Gefängnis.Wolf Wittenfeld (taz)
Scrambling to reduce Canada's dependence on the Donald Trump-led U.S., the country's Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday signed a security and defense partnership with the EU.
The aim is to shift Canada's defense and security relationship away from the US
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Canada signs defense pact with EU
The partnership will help both Ottawa and Brussels to deliver NATO’s new capability requirements.Csongor Körömi (POLITICO)
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True Costs of Misinformation: The Global Spread of Misinformation Laws
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True Costs of Misinformation: The Global Spread of Misinformation Laws - The Citizen Lab
In the past decade, we have seen a significant shift in how governments talk about misinformation. Many countries now consider or intentionally frameAlyson Bruce (The Citizen Lab)
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General view of sub-marginal farmland 50 miles west of Ithaca, New York. Tompkins County. (New York City, New York)
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General view of sub-marginal farmland 50 miles west of Ithaca, New York. Tompkins County.
One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.NYPL Digital Collections
...In the world of tourism and celebrity, [there is] what scholars call imitative or mimetic desire. The greatness of a site is directly proportional to the number of other viewers who consider it great. The tourist is always, in a sense, taking pictures of another tourist taking pictures.
-- Marjorie Garber (Symptoms of Culture)
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We are not pawns in your war: War with Iran threatens not just Iranian freedoms but Western freedoms as well.
Chinese Investors Trim Exposure to Tencent After April Peak
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Honor revela celular dobrável mais fino do mundo antes do lançamento
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Senja, Norway
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Adani’s Mumbai Airport Gets $750 Million From Apollo-Led Lenders
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Christian Ortner: Ohne Patriotismus wird das nichts
Wollen Deutschland und Österreich wirklich wieder so wehrfähig werden, wie die Politik nun behauptet, wird das nicht funktionieren, ohne wieder einen gewissen Patriotismus zu entwickeln, der aber entspannt und weltoffen gestrickt sein sollte, meint e…exxpress.at
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Yes, that big anti-trans ruling is terrible. There's also a bigger problem.
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Yes, That Big Anti-Trans Ruling Is Terrible. There’s Also a Bigger Problem.
U.S. politics are failing trans youth. We're also failing them by not talking about this more.Jill Filipovic (Slate)
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A certified San Diego stew.
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Detroit has a bad reputation but is doing interesting urbanist things at the moment—e.g., its cycling infrastructure is improving considerably.
Detroit’s mayor changed his mind from anti-bike-lanes to pro-bike-lanes after he heard the benefits they brought to New York City: Car traffic moves a little better, inhabitants are living longer, sidewalks are safer, businesses do better, etc.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores.Consortium News
Israeli bombing of the #Evin #prison in #Tehran was much heavier than the media reported earlier.
The #hospital and the administrative office of the prison were also bombed
#IDF says they dropped over 100 bombs on Tehran this morning.
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Israeli bombing of the #Evin #prison in #Tehran was much heavier than the media reported earlier. The #hospital and the administrative office of the prison were also bombed #IDF says they dropped over 100 bombs on Tehran this morning.Telegram
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Strohfeuer mit Pistorius: Wann wird Miosga talkshowtüchtig?
Miosga hat einen neuen Tiefpunkt erreicht. Sie geriert sich als kritischer Journalist, doch Stakkato-Fragen ohne Substanz sind am Ende nur eins: nervtötend. Boris Pistorius kommt mit derart dünnen Salven bestens klar.Anna Diouf (Tichys Einblick)
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TikTok parent ByteDance is shutting down its short-lived book publisher | TechCrunch
While authors were drawn to ByteDance's book publisher, 8th Note Press, because it seemed like its affiliation with TikTok could drive sales, the press is now telling writers that it will shut down and give them their publication rights back.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
Israel, Iran agree to ceasefire in coming hours — Trump
Israel, Iran agree to ceasefire in coming hours — Trump
Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire and, upon the 12th hour, Israel will start the ceasefire and, upon the 24th hourTASS
Trump few days ago: any retaliation against the US would be detrimental to Iran.
Iran: Retaliates
Trump: Alright man that’s enough, let’s talk innit.
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>>‘The #Hunger Games’: Inside #Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans<<
>>Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’<<
#Gaza #StarvationAsWeapon #Genocide #GHF
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Europeans overwhelmingly support increasing defense spending, polling shows ahead of a key NATO meeting this week.
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Europeans support increased defense spending
Half of the respondents in a European Council on Foreign Relations survey said their country needs to boost defense spending, with just 24% opposing the move.Jeronimo Gonzalez (www.semafor.com)
🚨UPDATE: The #US. State Department has fully evacuated all embassy staff from #TelAviv. No more warnings. No more vague statements.
The exits are open—and that only happens when something big is about to go down.
You don’t pull your entire #diplomatic core unless war isn’t just on the table—it’s in the microwave.
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'JMIR Research Protocols' is a core component of JMIR Publications #OpenScience mission—publishing methodologies and grant proposals across all areas of #Health #Research:
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JMIR: Research Protocols
ScienceOpenJMIR Research Protocols is a core component of our Open Science mission - publishing metholodologies in advance of results provides clarity on the capabilities of a study, reduces bias towa…
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#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Russian attacks on Sumy Oblast kill 3 people, including 8-year-old boy
Russian forces launched a drone attack on Sumy Oblast overnight on June 24, killing three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring three others, Governor Oleh Hryhorov reported.Lucy Pakhnyuk (The Kyiv Independent)
🏛️ ■ El Colegio de Abogados de Madrid pide cuatro años de prisión para el fiscal general ■ Propone además una multa de 81.000 euros.
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El Colegio de Abogados de Madrid pide cuatro años de prisión para el fiscal general
El Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (ICAM) pide cuatro años de prisión para el fiscal general del Estado, Álvaro García Ortiz, por un delito de revelación de secretos por la filtración de información sobre el caso de fraude fiscal de Alberto González Am…Redacción HuffPost (El HuffPost)
TV presenter Narinder Kaur complains there is 'only Italian food in Sicily' - Dining and Cooking
TV presenter Narinder Kaur has sparked debate after complaining about the lack of 'international cuisine' options during her recent trip to Sicily.Dining And Cooking (Dining and Cooking)
Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU): Reconfigurable, Near-Memory Tensor Manipulation for High-Throughput AI SoC
Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU): Reconfigurable, Near-Memory Tensor Manipulation for High-Throughput AI SoC
While recent advances in AI SoC design have focused heavily on accelerating tensor computation, the equally critical task of tensor manipulation, centered on high,volume data movement with minimal computation, remains underexplored.arXiv.org
⛔️🇺🇸You’re Next? Masked men from Trump’s ICE Gestapo beat the father of 3 U.S. Marines in the street during an abduction into an unmarked van (MSNBC News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #America #Immigration #ICE #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
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Panic, violence in Israeli shelters prompt emergency mediation program
Overcrowded shelters across "Israel" see rising violence as fear of Iranian retaliation grows.
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